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Updated: May 7, 2025
When I think of love in all its beauty I am sad, sad like Romola in George Eliot's well-known novel of the same name." She locked up her journal in the desk drawer, and wiped her pen point until it shone, upon a little square of chamois skin. Her writing-desk was a miracle of neatness, everything in its precise place, the writing-paper in geometrical parallelograms, the pen tray neatly polished.
"Isaac," she whispered, clutching him fast by the arm when he asked alarmedly if she was taken ill, "Isaac, does that woman's face remind you of nothing?" Before he could answer before he could look round to where Rebecca stood, astonished and angered by her reception, at the lower end of the room, his mother pointed impatiently to her writing-desk, and gave him the key.
He opened her writing-desk as he spoke, and took out her account- book. "Oh! papa," she cried in a startled tone, springing forward and taking hold of his hand, "please, please don't look! you know you said I need not show you until after Christmas."
After carefully brushing the dust from an old writing-desk, which had evidently once belonged to a lady, he placed it upon the rug in front of the fire. Only on Christmas-eves was this desk opened. "It is curious," thought Mr. Bixby, "that I should have moved this day, of all days in the year!"
While he was pocketing his change at the receiving clerk's pigeon-hole, a cab rattled up with a horse at a gallop, and Stephen Hawk sprang out. Kent saw him through the plate-glass front and turned quickly to the public writing-desk, hoping to be overlooked. He was. For once in a way the ex-district attorney was too nearly rattled to be fully alert to his surroundings.
Then he stood before the mantelpiece and watched her in silence as she moved about the room; for she was one of those women who always find half a dozen little things to do as soon as they get back from dinner, and go from place to place, moving a reading lamp half an inch farther from the edge of a table, shutting a book that has been left open on another, tearing up a letter that lies on the writing-desk, and slightly changing the angle at which a chair stands.
Near him, at a small writing-desk fastened to the wall, stood a helmeted policeman, whose gloved right hand rested on a curiously bescribbled piece of paper that lay before him on the desk, and whose honest soldier-face looked at Tonio Kröger as if he expected that the latter must sink into the ground at sight of him. Tonio Kröger looked from one to the other and applied himself to waiting.
She decided to ask him to go with her old and stooped though he was. Perhaps she would also take the pretty nurse-maid at the corner. And those who were left behind Miss Royle and Thomas and Jane would all be sorry when she was gone. But let them fret! Let them weep, and wish her back! She That moment she caught sight of the photographs on the writing-desk. She stood still to look at them.
In one of these bay windows was a dear little rocking-chair painted white, and a standard work-basket of dainty white and green wicker, completely furnished with sewing materials. In the other bay window was a dear little writing-desk of bird's-eye maple, and a wicker chair in front of it. The desk was open, and Marjorie could see all sorts of pens and pencils and paper in fascinating array.
To this I added my writing-desk, a mattress, two or three counterpanes, and a few other light articles, which it struck me might be of use but, which I could cast into the sea at any moment, should it become necessary. When all this was done, I conceived that my useful preparations were closed. It was near night, and I felt sufficiently fatigued to lie down and sleep.
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